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In 2025, the total output value of China's new material industry is expected to exceed RMB 10 trillion. However, among many key materials identified as "bottlenecks" (critical areas facing external constraints), the localization rate is less than 30%. As a basic metal with the world's largest output, widely used in transportation, new energy, electronics, and aerospace, aluminum is confronting the long-term challenge of technical barriers imposed by Europe, the United States, and Japan in the fields of high-end alloys and recycling.Amid the global wave of manufacturing upgrading and energy transition, whoever masters the standards for next-generation aluminum materials will seize the commanding heights in strategic sectors such as new energy vehicles (NEVs), 5G equipment, and ultra-high voltage (UHV) power transmission.Innovation New Materials, a leading enterprise in China's high-performance aluminum alloy materials sector, is emerging as a key "voice" in the global aluminum material value chain. It is a core subsidiary of Innovation Group—a world-leading green aluminum technology industrial group and one of the world's largest downstream aluminum manufacturers.Innovation Group has more than 20 subsidiaries and over 20,000 employees. Its business scope covers high-performance aluminum alloys, new energy materials, smart manufacturing, and recycled aluminum recovery. Its products are exported to markets in Asia, Europe, and North America, and the group has ranked among China's Top 500 Enterprises for nine consecutive years.Leveraging its strong R&D capabilities and green manufacturing practices, Innovation New Materials is driving the transformation of China's aluminum industry from traditional manufacturing to "tech metals":
In 2024, the comprehensive consumption of recycled aluminum reached 1.2109 million tons;
It participated in formulating 6 national-level recycled aluminum industry standards, one of which won the National First Prize for Technical Standards, promoting the upgrading of energy conservation and emission reduction thresholds in the industry.
The aluminum industry is a typical representative of high-energy-consumption and high-carbon-emission sectors. Innovation New Materials took the lead in deploying green energy, retrofitting 14 of its factory parks to achieve full coverage of green electricity, using photovoltaic, wind, and hydropower to replace traditional power sources.In the production process, smelting is a key link in energy consumption and carbon emissions. Innovation New Materials has gradually advanced technological iteration in this area:
Upgrading ordinary smelting furnaces to regenerative combustion furnaces;
Further introducing double-chamber furnaces and flue gas waste heat recovery technology;
Finally adopting electromagnetic induction furnaces combined with preheating systems, reducing energy consumption, burning loss, and emissions to the industry's minimum levels.
This series of technological breakthroughs has made Innovation New Materials a benchmark enterprise for green manufacturing in the industry.
Innovation New Materials has built a three-level closed-loop recycling system, covering in-house production line reuse (403,000 tons), industrial leftover recovery (with a recovery rate of 75% for 6061/6063 alloys), and market waste traceability, forming a complete green circular chain.The company has collaborated with a number of top domestic universities and industry giants to tackle global challenges such as efficient aluminum-plastic separation, precise control of alloy composition, and paint layer pyrolysis. It has successfully achieved an impurity removal rate of over 90% and purified high-purity aluminum with a purity of 99.9%.This technological leadership has also been recognized by international authorities: 13 of the group's products have obtained UL Global Recycled Content Certification, 7 have passed SCS Recycled Content Certification, and GRS 4.0 Certification covers 100% of its aluminum rod products.
Innovation New Materials has focused on segmented application fields, developing a variety of high-performance aluminum alloy materials. It supports the technological upgrading and market breakthroughs of 3C electronic consumer goods, automotive lightweighting, UHV power transmission, high-strength and high-toughness alloys, and recycled aluminum materials, promoting the evolution of aluminum alloys into "tech metals."
In the 3C electronics field: Innovation New Materials provides specialized aluminum alloys with excellent electromagnetic shielding, heat dissipation performance, and lightweight properties. These materials meet the strict requirements for performance and hand feel of smartphones, laptops, tablets, and wearable devices, helping end products achieve performance breakthroughs in high-density integration and thin-and-light design.
In the automotive lightweighting field: The high-strength and high-ductility aluminum alloys developed by Innovation New Materials are widely used in NEV bodies, chassis, and battery casings. They effectively improve driving range and safety performance, driving the green transformation of the automotive industry.
The high-strength and high-conductivity aluminum alloys required for UHV power transmission cables are an important guarantee for the national energy strategy. The UHV aluminum alloy materials developed by Innovation New Materials have successfully solved the technical problem of balancing strength and conductivity, improving the load-bearing capacity and transmission efficiency of power lines, and ensuring stable operation over a long service life.
To meet the needs of high-end manufacturing such as aerospace and rail transit: Innovation New Materials has created a variety of high-strength and high-toughness aluminum alloy products with excellent impact resistance and ductility. These products meet the safety and durability requirements under extreme working conditions, promoting Chinese manufacturing to enter the global high-end industrial chain.
In the green recycling field: Innovation New Materials has built a world-leading closed-loop system for recycled aluminum. Relying on independently developed technologies for efficient aluminum-plastic separation and 99.9% high-purity aluminum purification, it realizes high-quality recycling and reuse of waste aluminum materials.
This series of technological breakthroughs and application demonstrations in segmented fields not only improves material performance and green environmental protection standards but also consolidates Innovation New Materials' position as a definer of China's "tech metals" in the industry.
Innovation New Materials is advancing the digital transformation of production, introducing an MES full-process quality traceability system to achieve closed-loop management covering "raw material inspection → process parameter monitoring → automatic finished product testing."Through path optimization algorithms, the efficiency of warehouse turnover has been tripled, creating an industry-leading, highly flexible, and digital "future factory," which significantly improves product stability and delivery efficiency.
With continuous R&D investment and technological breakthroughs, Innovation New Materials has participated in formulating 6 national-level recycled aluminum industry standards, driving up the industry's thresholds for energy consumption and carbon emissions. It has thus become an important rule-maker in the global high-end aluminum material industry.When recycled aluminum technology gives waste resources a "high-end new life," and innovative alloys become the basic backbone of the technological era, Innovation New Materials is not only a core supplier in the industrial chain but also a key force driving the rise of China's aluminum industry in global discourse power.
In the new round of global industrial chain restructuring, the ability to define new material standards has become the key to the game between China's manufacturing industry and the global market. Innovation New Materials is seizing the discourse power of "tech metals," driving China's aluminum industry toward high-end, green, and digital development, and shaping a new pattern of the global value chain in the future.
Source: China Business News Network
